Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EIRWYN PONTSHÂN - see JONES, GWILYM EIRWYN
JOHN, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal were born to them: Delyth Margaret and Carys Elisabeth. In 1971 he was appointed professor of New Testament Studies in the Baptist College in Bangor, succeeding D. Eirwyn Morgan as head of the College in 1980. He was elected President of the Baptist Association in Caernarfonshire in 1982. In 1984, he retired to live in Llandysul, but continued to lecture for a time in the University College of Wales
JONES, GWILYM EIRWYN (EIRWYN PONTSHÂN; 1922 - 1994), carpenter, entertainer, nationalist Eirwyn Pontshân was born on 31 August 1922 at Preswylfa, Talgarreg, the son of Mary Theodosia Jones. He had a sister, Margaret Irene (Magina) Jones (later Thomas). The greatest influence on him in his childhood was his grandmother, Ruth Jones, Mynachlog. At the age of over eighty she published her autobiography, Atgofion Ruth Mynachlog (Gwasg Gomer 1939). Eirwyn left the local school at the age
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) David Eirwyn Morgan was born on 23 April 1918 in Bryn Meurig, Heol Waterloo, Pen-y-groes, Carmarthenshire, one of the four children - 3 sons and 1 daughter - of David and Rachel Morgan. His father worked in the local colliery, but the family worshipped in Saron, the Welsh Baptist church in Llandybïe, and it was there that Eirwyn was baptised by the Reverend Richard Lloyd, and there also that he
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen portraits of men such as George Essex Evans, Dewi Emrys, Dylan Thomas and Dyfnallt, there is a translation by him of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, ' Le Retour' (January 1921); a warm appreciation of the contribution of Professor Edmund Crosby Quiggin, the Celtic scholar, and a study on the Celts and warfare (Summer 1956 : a translation by D. Eirwyn Morgan of ' Keltic War Gods ' that was published in

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